The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-10-14

MINISTER HUBBARD, in his report to the
Department of State, wherein he gives in
formation relative to the trade of Japan
for 1888, intimates that America is dis
criminated against in the awarding of
government contracts for public works.
OK the 7th the acting Secretary of the
Navy received a dispatch from Rear Ad-
miral Chandler, commanding the Asiatic
squadron, dated Nagasaki, Japan, Sep
tember 7, in which he says he will send
ship Immediately to Nonage island Of the
Caroline group to investigate the native
massacre of Spaniards and protect Ameri-
can interests and missionaries in India.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the morning of the 4th Sophus Hess,
a German journalist, who came to this
country and to Davenport, Ia, in July
last, and who had recently gone into bus
mess there. hung himself in his room at
MOTEL in that city. 1t is believed he had
| expected large sum of money from some
! source, and disappointment and failure to
get it caused the act. He was forty years
old.
THE New York Commercial Bulletins
fire record for September shows an aggre-
gate loss of 81 937. 800 against So, 800, 600 in
| September, 1886. The total for the first
nine months of the current year is S93, ,1S3,
500 against $50, 100000 for the correspond
ing period of 1886.
OK the night of the 4th fire broke out
in the lumber district of Menominee,
Mich, and before it was extiuguished
had burned over 100000 feet of valuable
lumber in the yards and o. the docks.
Loss, 100000; insurance, so, 900.
On the 9th Judge Kumler sentenced
Chas. Doll, ex-member of the Board Of
| Public Works of Cincinnati, to two years
! in the penitentiary upon conviction of
having misapplied city funds in the pur-
| chase of a lot Of horses in Illinois for the
/ city's use.
ON the night Of the 5th Alfred Janicke,
| aged twenty five, son of a wealthy New
/ York jeweler, shot hi nself dead as he
1 was entering police headquarters in
/ charge of detectives. He had led dis
| sipated life, and finally stole someljewelry
| from man who gave him employment
] after he had Ibeen cast off by his parents.
/ His arrest and suicide resulted.
/ ARTHUR H. SMELL, acting paying teller
of the Fulton Bank, Brooklyn, was ar
rested on the 9th. He was short in his ac-
/ counts to the amount of $4,000.
/ NINE persons have been arrested on q
| charge of being implicated in the murder
| of John Kinsella, near Arthlow, Ireland.
! Kinsella was killed while resisting emer-
| gency men attempting to seize cattle.
A. SELLER, OF C.- island, O., and West
| ern agent for Reeve, Osborn q Co., tea
| merchants, New York, was arrested in
/ Marion, o., on the 9th, and taken to
/ Cleveland to answer to a charge of ad-
! ministering poison to his wife.
Mr.. NJ. DoNNELLY, an expressman n
/ Dubuque, Ia, was killed on the 9th by his
! horse running away. In jumping off, he
| was thrown back under the wagon, the
/ wheels passing over his neck. He lived a
\ few hours.
! Two men, named James Delaney and
| Dennis O'Shea, were struck by an incom-
! ing train on the Union Pacific road at
| Omaha, Neb., on the 9th, and instantly
/ killed. They We're each in buggy, and
4 were running a race on their return from
| the funeral of Patrick O'Shea, who died
| IN the Joliet (ui.) penitentiary October f.
A FIRE broke out on the 9Th in Ephraim
! How's distillery in New York. The build
! ing is three stories high, and of brick, and
was filed with valuable spirits. The whole
| stock was destroyed, despite the efforts Of
/ the firemen to save it, and within an hour
/ the distillery was in ashes. The loss on
! the building is $4,000, and on spirits
! $4,000.
! On the Sth Silas Hampton and Seaborn
| Green, Indians, were hanged for murder
at Fort Smith, Ark.
! FRANK RoTH, Of Cleveland, was convicted
at Wooster, O., on the 7th, of murder in
the first degree for killing his wife. The
murder was committed last spring, while
Roth and his wife were visiting in Woos-
ter, and was prompted by jealousy.
On the 7th A. w. Quinn, late Of the
! quartermaster's department., United
States army, committed suicide at Man
| chester, n. H, by hanging. His death is
attributed to meIaucholia consequent upon
the death of his wife.
ON the night Of the 9Th John II. Keim, a
ID.
mitted suicide by shooting himself in the
head. Deceased was indicted at the last
term Of court on charge Of defrauding a
bank oct of 500, and it is supposed that
! trouble led him to take his life.
A DWELLING house located in a block
| bounded by Michigan, Ontario, Locust and
/ Lagrange streets, Toledo, o., was recently
! vacated, and new tenants moved into the
| dwelling. While a cstern was being
cleaned out on the 7th, it was found to
contain the bodies of thirteen infants. The
| house was formerly occupied by a mid
wife, who has been arrested.
CONFIDENCE men are reported fleeing
| farmers in the Hudson river and inland
tier Of counties in New York. The vic
Tins are induced to put their names ''to an
order for samples of grain" The paper
! generally comes back through an innocent
holder, in the shape Of prOmisory note.
MISCELLANEOUS.
FoUR more cases Of cholera devel oped
on Hoffman's Island, New York harbor, on
| the Sd, among the passengers of the steam
/ ship Alesia. The patients were removed
to Swinburne island. There are fourteen
cases under treatment.
| A CALL has been issued, signed by many
leaders OF the various Protestant denOmi-
nations, for a general conference Of all
evangelical churches ina the United States,
to be held under the auspices and direction
of the Evangelical Alliance for the United
states, in Washington, ID. O., December Z,
and 9.
THE total amount Of bonds offered to the
Government on the 81 was S295, 759, of
which S242, 800 were 1-2, and S53, ,250 were
per cent
TERRIBLE scenes are reported to have
been witnessed in connection with evic-
tions at Gweedore hay, in the extreme
northwestern part of Ireland.
THE New York quarantine authorities
report four additional deaths from cholera
among the patients on Swinburn island
on the 4th. This makes total of fourteen
deaths from cholera among the passenger
taken cut of the steamship Alesia. Ten
others are sick.
A STATEMENT just prepared at the Treas
ury Department shows that during the
/ month of September there was a net in
crease of So, 85O,375 in circulation and a
net increase of s., ,2Gt,l lS6 in the cash in the
treasury.
EARLY on the morning of the 4th a shock
Of earthquake was felt throughout Greece.
The disturbance was strongest on the
northern and southern shores Of the Cult
of Corinth.
The report of Special Commissioner
Okie in regard to the Emigration Commits
sion at New York City is said to recon-